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Jareckt

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Registered: 2025-02-22

Posts: 12

[Solved] Audio suddenly starts crashing and system halts

Hi,

I'm a bit at the end of the rope, and thought i'll try and reach out here to see if any can help me troubleshoot this issue i'm having.

It happens quite frequently, and then it suddenly stops, but the issue i'm having is that audio starts cutting out, then the system halts and i have to do a reboot, and then all works again.

When checking journalctl -b -1 there are no error's only a few warnings saying alsa-input is having issues with the stereo, tried to unplug everything, then i can't reproduce the problem, but when i plug in speakers and start a game/discord/music it suddenly starts acting up again.

Not really a major issue, just means i have to reboot 2-3 times a day, but would like to know how i can troubleshoot this issue.

Can anyone give me a pointer to where i can start looking at the problem.

If you need any outputs from me, i'll happily give them to you.

CPU : 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12600K @ 4.90 GHz
GPU : Intel Arc A770
GPU Driver : i915
pipewire 1:1.2.7-1
pipewire-pulse 1:1.2.7-1
Wireplumber 0.5.8-1

Granted i dont know if it is the audio that is the issue or something else, it's just audio starts cutting then i have to reboot.
any help is greatly appriciated

Last edited by Jareckt (2025-03-09 20:58:55)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,575

Re: [Solved] Audio suddenly starts crashing and system halts

Post such a journal even if you don't see anything (

sudo journalctl -b-1 | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

). Also if "have to do a reboot" entails holding the power button, try not to do that and check whether you can enable sysrq and use the REISUB button sequence (pause a few secs between each key press) to do a graceful reboot: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboa … el_(SysRq) (note the kernel param you have to set to enable this)

Generally symptoms sound like a kernel bug and you might not even be able to REISUB out, have you tested whether you can reproduce on linux-lts (though that did get bumped to 6.12 so you're only one major kernel version out, so if the issue is somewhat recent chances are you see that as well.

Last edited by V1del (2025-02-22 14:06:49)

Jareckt

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Registered: 2025-02-22

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] Audio suddenly starts crashing and system halts

Tried lts and zen, same issue.

I feel like i should look into this more, but i just deleted Discord instead, which felt like the culprit, and just using the browser instead, and now i have no issues.

Tried your suggestion, doesn't appear to work, keyboard not registering any inputs when alsa is coughing up.

Jareckt

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Registered: 2025-02-22

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] Audio suddenly starts crashing and system halts

Had the system running since the 22nd, and today i got another crash

pipewire[851]: pw.node: (alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo-61) graph xrun not-triggered

Getting that error

http://0x0.st/8Auq.txt

Jareckt

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Registered: 2025-02-22

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] Audio suddenly starts crashing and system halts

I can't really see where my issue is, still getting them very sporadic at the moment (twice a week).

Any recommendations for better troubleshooting, would be greatly appreciated.

Jareckt

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Registered: 2025-02-22

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] Audio suddenly starts crashing and system halts

After a lot of trouble, seems that pipewire.socket was having issues with my webcam a Logitech StreamCam, and i just installed libcamera and seems to have resolved the issue.